Beats 1 hosts Brooke Reece and Travis Mills revealed the list of nominees, which saw Swift receive nods in the best collaboration, best female performance and video of the year categories, taking a total of nine nominations.

Other successes came for Ed Sheeran, who was awarded six nominations, and Kendrick Lamar, whose collaborations with Taylor Swift and Flying Lotus received recognition, as did his video for Alright.

The awards take place on 30 August and will be hosted by Miley Cyrus, who announced she would helm the show by posting a picture on Instagram of her dressed in a green morph suit with a sandwich board that read: “MTV WON’T LET ME PERFORM” on one side and “SO I’M HOSTING THIS YEAR’S VMA’S” on the other.